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Given the great potential of mHealth applications as far as chronic diseases management is concerned, we investigated the level of intervention provided by mobile applications for the case of diabetes. Online stores (Google Play Store, App Store, Windows Phone Store) and mHealth-related databases were used as our investigation field and applications were reviewed upon several criteria. Our results indicate that there is still enough room for improvement in order to approach a holistic managemenent point-of-view from an mHealth perspective.
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Zaires, S., Perrakis, G., Bekri, E., Katrakazas, P., Lambrou, G., Koutsouris, D. (2018). Chronic Disease Management via Mobile Apps: The Diabetes Case. In: Eskola, H., Väisänen, O., Viik, J., Hyttinen, J. (eds) EMBEC & NBC 2017. EMBEC NBC 2017 2017. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 65. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5122-7_45
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